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The time pressures today on salespeople and clients are out of control Sellers react in two ways that undermine their effectiveness.

In a misguided effort to save their prospects' time, salespeople take on more of the work, shoulder more of the burden themselves. And they turn proposals around with lightning speed, delivering the complete package on the second call.

That's handoff selling. The salesperson does all of her work first, hands off the proposal to the prospect as if it were a baton in a relay race, and then the prospect begins his work, the detailed consideration of this and other proposals.

That's not how the pros close! Author Steve Marx reveals how the most accomplished professionals actually do big deals and create long-lasting client relationships. They merge selling and buying into a single process--interactive selling. It's a process anyone can learn and any company can adopt.

Close Like The Pros is not another re-hash of sales basics--the basics in this book are the ones missing from every other book on the shelf.

Close Like the Pros :

* Is targeted at business-to-business salespeople who sell tailored solutions and seek long-term relationships--and to anyone who has a Big Idea to sell in the workplace.

* Weans salespeople from the dangerous fiction of the two-call close, which causes them to lose control, lose influence, and lose business.

* Gives salespeople the tools they need to activate the buying process as soon as the selling process begins--and to keep the selling process alive until the decision is ready.

* Shows salespeople how to invest more time with prospects likely to buy and less with those who aren't.

* Changes the language of selling, introducing the reader to real-life practices including half-baked ideas, homework assignments, molehill decisions, trial balloons, and more.

With interactive selling, the prospect helps improve the proposal, and the proposal helps improve the prospect! It's 21st century high-engagement selling and buying.

For more information and a free download of Chapter 1--and to take a free self-assessment of whether you're already an interactive salesperson--visit InteractiveSelling.com..
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For the growing number of women who want to drop out because they are stressed out, this easy read provides practical solutions Women can immediately apply these tools and strategies for limiting commitments, identifying gifts, dealing with emotions, nurturing the spirit, burying anxieties, facing the past, celebrating accomplishments, developing a support network, and protecting dreams. The Worn-Out Woman will help the reader trade in a life of running on empty for a life that is meaningful and fulfilling. She will find and recapture her passion, finally realizing the great potential God gave her..
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LIVING WITH PURPOSE IN A WORN-OUT BODY is an exploration of the inner life shared by many persons in nursing homes and retirement centers. With compassion and honesty, Buchanan gives voice to mingled feelings of loss, gratitude, resignation, courage, loneliness, and love. Buchanan lets readers know the difficult feelings of those living an assisted life: the ambivalence about being alive so long, the struggle against self-pity, the frustrations of limited strength and movement. She also mines the joys of living: laughter among friends, seeing grandchildren grow up, sifting through happy memories. Well chosen passages from the Psalms and New Testament stir feelings of hope and a trust in God's will, allowing the reader to respond with the joy and fortitude of faith..
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Simply for Myself

Does the thought of one more “to-do list” put you over the edge? How about submerging yourself into sumptuously illustrated pages whose only concern is— you! This book has nothing to do with “to do,” and everything to do with healing and peace. The beauty of these thoughtfully chosen insights is that they use simplicity to bring you simplicity—condensing essential information and practical solutions into one or two pages. Find strategies for limiting your commitments, nurturing your spirit, celebrating your accomplishments, and protecting your dreams. Simple Living for the Worn Out Woman will help you ease into new perspectives and provide simple steps to reconnecting with your life!

Slow down…

Catch your breath…

Savor the moment…

Enjoy a small delight…

Isn’t It About Time…for You?



Simple Living for the Worn Out Woman has nothing to do with “to do,” and everything to do with infusing your life with energy, sparkle, and radiance. These thoughtfully chosen insights use simplicity to bring you simplicity—gentle wisdom and soothing comfort condensed into satisfying mini-retreats.

Ease into the absolute pleasure of…

Nurturing your spirit

Cherishing relationships

Recapturing your dreams

Celebrating your accomplishments.

It’s time…for a new, refreshed you.

Story Behind the Book

“…the perfect balance of ideas and inspiration, compassion and common sense, helping us find a saner way to live.”

Liz Curtis Higgs , bestselling author, Bad Girls of the Bible.
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"Know thy gadgets; first step in restoring some kind of wholeness to one's life." So observes John Jerome about his purpose for rebuilding a 1950 Dodge pickup. Yes, he needs the truck to haul manure, but Jerome also hopes that "by knowing every nut, lockwasher, and cotter pin I could have a machine that had some meaning to me." Thus his year-long odyssey under the hood, among the brake shoes and valves, becomes more than a mechanic's memoir; it is a meditation on machines, metaphysics, and the moral universe.

Nearly two decades after publication in 1977, the essential dilemma of Truck still rings true: as Jerome dismantles the aged straight six, he also disassembles our reliance on "two-hundred-dollar appliances that sport flaws in thirty-five-cent parts" and decries the "deliberate encapsulation, impenetrability, of the overtechnologized things with which we furnish our lives." Despite gouged knuckles, a frigid New Hampshire winter, frustrating and inexplicable assemblies, and a close call when the truck rolls off its jacks, he perseveres. In the end, he admits, "I did not find God out there in the barn" among the cans of nuts and bolts." What he does find, however, is that he must make peace with technology; it's a mistake, he says, to "assume there is a point on that line between the caveman's club and the moon shot that marks the moral turnaround, before which technology was somehow benign, after which it is malign." While Jerome gains a truck that runs-sometimes-we gain new insight into a technology that continues to encroach upon our lives..
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The Worn-Out Backpack is the story of a child coping with the emotional turmoil created by her father’s military deployment to the Middle East..
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The balls are in the air: career woman, wife, mother, friend, volunteer, chief cook and bottle washer...and they're about to crash onto the floor along with your sanity! This small but powerful book provides a practical and thoughtful plan to take back control of your life, reprioritize based on your values and achieve a balance between work, home, family and self..
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Cliches. Once they were so original, so fresh. Now, everybody uses them, and if your work depends on lively prose, they're a problem This book is the solution Fiske takes you on a tour of the world of "dimwitticisms"; moribund metaphors, torpid terms and wretched redundancies that have all the impact of foam-rubber cannonballs. Fiske's comprehensive thesaurus lists hundreds of problem phrases along with witty commentary and useful synonyms that will help you make your writing energetic and interesting. In this book you'll learn: how to keep your prose fat-free; the shelf life of a metaphor; how to avoid insipid similes; why the road to obscurity is paved with superlatives; how to use language with intelligence and panache. You will also learn to identify and change those moldy oldies that can dull your writing style, and then avoid them forever..
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